St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-08

IN the guarantees of the word of God
they Will act upon the guarantees of the
constitution of the United States, and
they will make these sacrifices and
travel these distances, and encounter
these dangers, all of them, for the sake
OF what they shall eat, and what they
snail drink, and wherewithall they
shall be clothed, and for the
integrity of their manhood. They
tee of the constitution of the United
States, and yet they will refuse to listen
to the word of God; refuse to act and
refuse to accept it as the truth and act
upon 1t. My brother, if you want
liberty, as said last night, and said be-
fore; as it has been preached since the
time of Christine has stood in the syna-
gogue and said, 1.-The spirit of the Lord
Is on me"-from that day down to this
as long as the liberty of God has been
preached among men, say to you if we
want liberty there is no liberty on earth
comparable to the liberty of the soul
through the spirit of the gospel of Jesus
Christ. If you want equality, there is
no equality in the world to be found un-
der any government in the world or any
that has been proposed by the most
chimerical agitatOrs and spec ulatOrs;
there is no such equality like that found
In the kingdom OF God. Jesus Christ
himself was the founder of the COM
munistic idea in its purity and in it's in
tegrity and true realism. He was not
the founder of that
DAMNABLE COMMUNISM
so-called, that runs around in this cOun-
try and says: Il wont work and labor
or do anything, but take everything that
everybody else has earned and call it
liberty, and right, and justice, and gov
eminent" That is the communism of
the devil. But Jesus Christ promul-
gated the communism of brotherhood,
the communism of salvation, the COM
muniSm of his own sacrifice for all men,
the communism of the favor of God in
equal measure to men. He said: Come
unto the kingdom of God and you shall
be joint heirs with me-" There shall
be none of it withheld from you, and
the only quality and true communism is
that which brings men together in the
name of Christ and makes each one of
us say to the other: You are my
brother: Though have plenty it is it
at the hands of the Lord through the
mercy and providence of God, and if
you have little and need, mine shall be
yours" 1t is the communism that
led the the early disciples to sell their
all and put it into common store.
In these days OF growth and necessities
of law, and the growth of Christianity
and its projection into all the ranks and
walks OF life and in all things, that conf
munism is neither necessary nor would
it be wise and practical. But this COM
munism is; that men who are in the
Kingdom of Christ and been blessed
with the bounties of God, can say: "AS
long as Christ has given to me plenty,
my brothers i'll Christ shall not suffer-"
Happiness, liberty, equality, life, are all
of them found in the kingdom of God.
Jesus Christ said: Il am the way, am
the TRUTH" but above all, Il am the
life.' A man asks me in the street this
morning, Gf he shoulO do you believe
that you have eternal life?" | would
say, yes. ! do not believe it only, but |
know it. He says, THAT is strange"
If you thought you was going to'enter
upon
ETERNAL LIFE
after you died for you to say you believe
you have it here; wouldn't you have to
pass Judgment and receive the approval
of God" used to have just such. an
idea as that myself, but i have gotten
over it, thank God. God kno,Ts now
whether | am entitled to heaven this
morning. God will know as soon as l
die whether l am to live in heaven OF
my condition, my destiny is what, my
chances are under His divine" plan :Of
economy for either heaven or hell every
moment live. know what the prom
Uses of God are, and / know who Jesus
Christ is, thank God. And know that
he has eternal life, in him it is given to
me. A man says: 81 do not understand
it, do not see how that is, how we can
get the thing certain in all hearts, and
souls, and minds, that we have eternal
life now" | feel just that way this
morning, brother. Death has no
be b, "a afraid d of ''' it, but am not
afraid of it now, simply a throwing off
the body. l do not care what becomes
of it, as / said while ago, but as for
me, feel this morning that | will live
OH forever, and it will be an eternal life
and not eternal death, and that there
will be no stopping place where this life
shall become an eternal life, because l
have passed that point passed it twenty
odd months ago. You say '.Why?" Is
it not perfectly plain, my belief through
the Holy Spirit? Can't you. see it as
plainly as l see it this morning? Jesus
Christ is the reproduction of God. AS
we have stated and tried to elucidate to
you before, He has in Him all the full
ness of the Godhead, as He has all the
qualities that are in God. Now, then,
He says: 81 can be formed in you by
the Holy Ghost, if you will take
THESE CHARACTERISTICS
of mine and throw out of your life all
things contrary to this" Now, if my
constant endeavOr is to build up those
things in my character and life, and
make them the essentials eff my life
to-day, say, shall have eternal life
just as Jesus Christ had. For instance,
justice is one of the attributes and quail
tiles of God. So it was in Jesus Christ
in perfection, and so it is transmitted to
me through Christ. So am led to know
and understand what justice is, and
what it is in its perfection by the teach
ing of the Holy Ghost. Now then, can
justice die? Tell me that. Isn't justice
eternal? Is not it eternal and everlast-
ing as God himself, because it is part of
through Christ to me and you, and II
you have the same justice, which we see
in Christ, and which Christ received
from God, can that justice ever
die? Human justice can be bought and
perverted. Human justice can be in
verified and made injustice, can be dis
puted and made only temporary appli-
cation, but the justice of God is eternal,
and it cannot die until God dies. SO the
love of God is eternal. God is love, and
one of the particular essentials of His
character is love, and that same love
was seen in Jesus Christ, and if that
same love that was in Christ is cultivated
in my soul, and made All essential of my
life, it can no more die in me than ii
could die in Christ, or will die iii God.
And so there were qualities Of God
transmitted and demonstrated in Christ,
and by him made possible by faith to
us, if VIC gather them together in our
lives and make them essential to our
characters and eliminate all that is evil
and contrary to them; then We have a